Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 79
King Arthur is captive and his land is beset and in sore stress.
Who acts: King Arthur, land · What happens: be · To what, where: beset
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King Arthur, land), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Arthur | compound |
| 2 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 captive | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 captive | cop |
| 4 | captive | captive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 beset | cc |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 land | nmod:poss |
| 7 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 beset | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 beset | cop |
| 9 | beset | beset | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 captive | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 stress | cc |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 stress | case |
| 12 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 stress | amod |
| 13 | stress | stress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 beset | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 captive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | King Arthur | captive property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Arthur's land | beset and sore stress | sore stress conj | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Project Gutenberg book 8447 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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